Now, I’ve heard of being born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but never a string of pearls around your mediastinum!

This is from an old ad for a “miracle” technology that allows a doctor to see your beating heart (if you look hard at the top, you can see the patient standing behind the machine, so this is “live action”).

I say put Bugs Bunny back there and it looks like something from a Warner Brothers cartoon!

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Alas, I do not work on this illustrious ode to witches and goblins and things that go bump in the night.

Actually, that’s too bad. There is a red cape in my daughter’s room and I could have gone dressed all in white with my nursing cap on (any excuse, remember?), along with the red cape and been “Super Nurse”!

I didn’t get to wear my cap during Nurses Week this year. That’s the week hubby decided his gallbladder would go bad, so I was only at work one day.

I learned to never order my Starbucks drink as a “for here” order. Coffee tastes much better in a porcelain mug but not when Mr. Homeless Bronchitis-vs-Tuberculosis decides to sit in the cushy chair opposite of yours and cough his guts out.

One wants a covered beverage in those conditions.

I almost leaned over and inquired as to his health and to urge a visit to the hospital as I’m almost sure he was working on developing pneumonia if he didn’t have it already. Then I realized the Starbucks I was at wasn’t even near a hospital or clinic and I’d feel obligated to help.

I didn’t say anything.

I’m not proud that. Perhaps I should have.

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Speaking of coughs, patients with a cough often need a chest x-ray!

How’s that for a segue to a mention of Dr. Sethi’s Radiology Grand Rounds! Held once a month over at Sumer’s Radiology Site, it’s a compliation of some great radiology information, along with an occasional jaw-dropping film (can you say “chest tube in the left ventricle”?).

Who would have thought radiology could be interesting? Find out just how interesting by paying Dr. Sethi a visit!

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2 Comments

i’m off to read about the chest tube in the left ventricle!! Wow!! just wanted to tell you that I set my blog back up just in time for nablopomo.

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May 16, 2008 at 8:19 pm

Great work with this one, nicelly done!

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My name is Kim, and I'm a nurse in the San Francisco Bay area. I've been a nurse for 33 years; I graduated in 1978 with my ADN. My experience is predominately Emergency and Critical Care, and I have also worked in Psychiatry and Pediatrics. I made the decision to be a nurse back in 1966 at the age of nine...